Journalism
After completing university, Al-Maghafi returned to Yemen, where she began making videos about the Yemeni revolution in 2011. [3] That year she also interviewed then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. [4] She later interviewed Ali Al Imad and figureheads in the Houthi insurgency. [5] In 2015, Al-Maghafi covered the peace talks between Houthi and General People's Congress delegates in Switzerland. [6] Al-Maghafi continued her reporting in Yemen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with her reports discussing the government cover-ups of cases in the country. [7] She later produced a documentary, Yemen’s Covid Cover Up, from her reporting. [8]
Al-Maghafi joined the BBC in 2011, [9] where she produced reports on Yemen for BBC News at Ten , BBC Our World and BBC Arabic. [3] In 2018, Al-Maghafi was nominated for the Royal Television Society's Young Talent of the Year award. [3] She joined BBC Newsnight in May 2023 as an international correspondent. [10] [2]
Documentaries
Al-Maghafi's 2016 documentary, Starving Yemen, explored the on-going humanitarian crisis in Yemen, caused by bombing in the Yemeni civil war. [11] [12] Her 2017 documentary, The Funeral Bombing, focused on a 2016 airstrike on a funeral in Sanaa. [11]
Her 2019 documentary, Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade, won two News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 2020 in the categories Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine and Best Story in a Newsmagazine. [13] [14]
In 2022, Al-Maghafi's documentary Yemen’s Covid Cover Up won an News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form. [15]
In 2023, Al-Maghafi released This World: Murder in Mayfair, a documentary exploring the 2008 murder of Martine Vik Magnussen in London. [9] [16]
